{"id":11,"date":"2011-08-23T14:23:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T14:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/ericheggestad\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2013-10-24T19:35:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T19:35:25","slug":"research-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/ericheggestad\/research-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I co-direct a lab with Dr. Linda Shanock who is also an I\/O Psychologist and a member of the Organizational Science faculty. Together\u00a0with our graduate and\u00a0undergraduate\u00a0students, we have numerous\u00a0projects\u00a0on-going or in the planning phases. Please take a moment to explore our website (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/palm\/\">http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/palm\/<\/a>) to see what research we are currently working on, learn about our students, and even apply to be a research assistant.<\/p>\n<p>Most of my research has looked at how we can better measure a job applicants personality and use those measurements to predict his or her performance on the job. My colleagues and I have looked a several different issues around this theme:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How should an organization decide which traits to measure?<\/li>\n<li>Are we able to make better predictions if we ask applicants about their personality at work?<\/li>\n<li>If applicants &#8220;fake&#8221; on a test, does it hurt the quality of predictions we can make using their scores?<\/li>\n<li>Can we design a test that is difficult for applicants to fake?<\/li>\n<li>What kinds of things can we do if we suspect that an applicant is faking on the personality test?<\/li>\n<li>Are there traits that capture a person&#8217;s motivation?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am also interested in other ways of assessing current or\u00a0potential\u00a0employees, such as cognitive ability tests and the assessment center method.<\/p>\n<p>I have also been doing some research with my colleagues in cognitive psychology to look at how we can use automation as a training aide. If we are training people to do a very complex task, can we help them learn better by automating part of the task while they learn. I am really interested in whether this approach might be more beneficial for some people than for others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I co-direct a lab with Dr. Linda Shanock who is also an I\/O Psychologist and a member of the Organizational Science faculty. Together\u00a0with our graduate and\u00a0undergraduate\u00a0students, we have numerous\u00a0projects\u00a0on-going or in the planning phases. Please take a moment to explore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/ericheggestad\/research-statement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2eX0M-b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/ericheggestad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/ericheggestad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/ericheggestad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/ericheggestad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/ericheggestad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/ericheggestad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/ericheggestad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/ericheggestad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}